Changes between Version 31 and Version 32 of provisioning

Timestamp:

02/06/2025 07:02:16 PM (2 weeks ago)

Author:

Tim Harvey

Comment:

switch example to use gzip compression as xz can be very slow on ARM targets

provisioning

@@ -49 +49 @@
 # create a tarball of the partition
 mount /dev/mmcblk2p1 /mnt
-tar --numeric-owner -cJf /tmp/mmcblk2p1.tar.xz -C /mnt .
-}}}
+tar --numeric-owner -czf /tmp/mmcblk2p1.tar.gz -C /mnt .
+}}}
+ - Note you can use other forms of compression here other than 'z' for gzip but the trade-off of compression time vs size may not be worth the wait
 
 You will either need to store this on a mounted removable storage device partition or store to ramdisk (as above) and transfer them via network. If the compressed data exceeds the size of the ramdisk you will need to go straight to removable storage.
@@ -69 +70 @@
 mount /dev/mmcblk2p1 /mnt
 # extract the tarball to it
-tar -C /mnt -xf /tmp/mmcblk2p1.tar.xz --keep-directory-symlink
+tar -C /mnt -xf /tmp/mmcblk2p1.tar.gz --keep-directory-symlink
 # unmount it
 umount /dev/mmcblk2p1